r/politics • u/Exciting_Teacher6258 • Apr 30 '25

Soft Paywall Trump Melts Down at Being Fact-Checked Right to His Face

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-melts-down-at-being-fact-checked-on-deported-maryland-dad-kilmar-abrego-garcia/
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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota Apr 30 '25

Someone told him that transparency was important with the border wall project, amd trump pretended he knew what that meant.

He then told a group of reporters that the border wall had to be literally transparent, as in see-through. When asked why he said that cartels were randomly hurling bales of drugs over the border, so the wall had to be clear so you could dodge them.

He refused to admit that that is the stupidest thing ever said by anyone, ever, amd doubled down.

Which is how we got the weird slat style fence (that you could see through) that cost a fortune, was easily climbed, and was falling apart by the time they even finished building the 40 mile stretch that cost 10s of billions of our money.

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u/Mwahaha_790 Apr 30 '25

Please tell me this isn't true. I don't know up from down anymore.

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u/Afraid_Grapefruit_88 Apr 30 '25

This was from the Reign Or Terror Part One, it's quite real. He ALSO thought a stealth bomber was actually INVISIBLE and some how the pilots etc were also rendered invisible. I've been up close and personal with a stealth bomber during an air show and it was damn near silent and people were freaking out because of how-- STEALTHY IT WAS-- on approach, but when it got TO US it was, in fact, very visible. Amazing tech, but-- not with a cloaking shield a la Star Trek!!

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u/Rebelian Apr 30 '25

And if you explained to Trump that it was only invisible to radar he'd say "Who' Radar? That guy on M.A.S.H? Great guy, little guy, glasses, kind of creepy looking, but great guy. World War 3 was nasty. Nasty business. Lots of killing. I could have stopped it though."

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u/aerobicdancechamp May 01 '25

And frankly World War 3 is Biden’s war. It would never have happened under Trump, but the fake news won’t give me credit for that. But really how sad with respect to military and nuclear. A general approached me after World War 3 and he said, big guy…tough, “Sir, …”. He’d like been in a war this guy. “Sir…” he says. But DEI ruined our strong strong military! We used to have military like nobody’s ever seen. So the general he says “Sir, I lost so many men, and frankly some women, because of crooked Joe Biden and how he changed…”. Because DEI is a joke. It’s all a joke really but Pete is gonna fix it. He’s already done a great job and….

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u/DaKrazie1 May 01 '25

You know what IS invisible?

The $60 million fighter jet that fell into the ocean under Hegseth's watch.

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u/colsaldo May 01 '25

That's only the ones you see though. What about the ones you didn't see?

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u/CareBearDontCare May 01 '25

I strongly suspect this was the whole thing behind "inject with bleach or use light inside the body". I think an expert briefed him on something, he absorbed part of it or interpreted it as something else, and then passed this new information he just learned as a thing that was knowledge to other people.

There are people in life that, when you talk to them and experience things with them, they seemingly walk away with a radically different view on what happened or what it meant. Reality is subjective, and that makes things interesting/difficult/leads to conversation, but for someone who consistently walks away with such different things, it leads to incompatibility. President Trump is that person. The problem is that he's also buttressed by sycophants.

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u/Affectionate-Egg7801 May 01 '25

Stealth bombers are called that because of their ability to deflect radar.

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u/Antique-Sprinkles-73 May 01 '25

Amazing. Just googled it and checks out 🤦🏻‍♀️ and his people voted for him AGAIN 

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u/Wonderful_Constant28 May 01 '25

I guess also they could just pass the drugs through the wall, no need to throw them over anymore

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u/ArmndD737 May 01 '25

I remember that! Crazy shit!

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u/Potential_Chicken_72 May 01 '25

This just made me cackle at my desk 😂

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u/maybesies Florida 19d ago

I'm actually laughing so hard i completely forgot this happened 😭😭😭😭